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At the Goose Chase Races


	Formation Flying f/5.6, 1/2000 sec, ISO 400; EF 100-400 f4/5-5.6L IS@380mm Stephen Shoff
	At the Goose Chase Races f/5.6, 1/1600 sec, ISO 400; EF 100-400 f4/5-5.6L IS@380mm Stephen Shoff

Stephen Shoff

I was out testing a new used lens I bought earlier in the week. Don't know if I will get better pictures, but I will sure get some amusing ones.

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December 21, 2013

Dale Hardin

Very cool the way you focused through the foreground cover, Stephen. Where was this?

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December 21, 2013

Stephen Shoff

This is Bass Lake, a shallow but broad holding pond about a mile from my house. For several years now there have been migrating geese there for the winter. This year, for the last couple of months on my way to work each day I've noticed that bunch of pelicans off at the far side of the lake. I went down fairly early this morning to try out my new long tele-photo lens. While I was taking pictures of the pelicans a large flock of geese arrived and settled down in the water. At this point, they were skimming the water right in front of and below me.

I wasn't focusing through the ground cover on this. I was focusing higher in the frame on the birds themselves. As I recall, it is just a matter of optics that the reflections are in the same plane of focus as the geese. This is a pretty severe crop and the framing just causes it to look like I'm focusing through the dried grasses.

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December 21, 2013

Beth Spencer

I really like the Formation Flying one the best... The reflections really are interesting!
This looks like a really busy place! Enjoy your lens! Which camera were you using?